Sr. Security Researcher II (Remote)

About the Role:

CrowdStrike is looking for a self-starting, action-oriented, and highly motivated individual to join our Intelligence Team. This position will require the candidate to track and collect information related to Russian-speaking hacktivist group tools, tradecraft, and techniques in a wide variety of environments, to include the deep and dark web.

The mission of a Senior Security Researcher (Russia) is to leverage operational tradecraft along with subject matter expertise to identify, develop and maintain unique sources of cyber threat intelligence information and enable threat analysis. It serves as an important support role to ongoing analysis of actors, adversaries, geopolitical developments, and transnational issues, and is instrumental in providing unique insight into finished Intelligence products used by CrowdStrike customers and stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be an operational security (OPSEC)-savvy, detail-oriented problem solver, and have substantial experience driving concurrent projects and issues to completion with minimal direction.

Highly qualified candidates will have an excellent technical foundation, especially related to Russia-based cyber threat actors, be capable of conducting advanced research pertaining to hacktivist activity, will understand threat intelligence, have strong open source (OSINT) research skills, and be comfortable with internal and cross-team collaboration.

What You'll Do:

• Collect unique, actionable, timely, and relevant information to answer established standing and ad hoc requirements related to Russia-based hacktivist actors.

• Leverage advanced OSINT tradecraft to follow up on leads and identify Russia-based hacktivist threat actors and track them in various online communities.

• Identify current and emerging cyber threats and trends in Russia and the surrounding region such as Ukraine, including technical information.

• Create consistently clear, highly-contextualized internal reports of collected information in a way that enables robust analysis.

• Collaborate on analytical reports and threat estimates pertaining to Russia hacktivist topics.

• Employ secure virtual operational tradecraft methods and practices.

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What You'll Need:

• Has extensive experience navigating a wide variety of cyber threat actor environments, to include social media, hidden services, and forums.

• Demonstrates a high level of knowledge regarding Russia-based hacktivist groups.

• Possesses practical knowledge of technical terminology, tools, and tactics employed by Russia-based

• hacktivist threat actors.

• Can perform comprehensive OSINT investigations using very advanced Russian language.

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